His large, pointed ears were now sticking out from beneath what looked like all the hats Hermione had ever knitted; he was wearing one on top of the other, so that his head seemed elongated by two or three feet, and on the very topmost bobble sat Hedwig, hooting serenely and obviously cured.

’Look,’ said Ron, barely containing his anger, ’you might be able to fly without a broomstick but the rest of us can’t sprout wings whenever we —’ There are ways of flying other than with broomsticks,’ said Luna serenely.

The delicate silver instruments stood once more on the spindle-legged tables, puffing and whirring serenely The portraits of the headmasters and headmistresses were snoozing in their frames, heads lolling back in armchairs or against the edge of the picture.